Twilight Festival is tonight in downtown Columbia. The free event includes music 7 to 9 p.m. on Ninth Street by Jonathan Singleton, Glenn Bishop's magic show at 6 and 7:15 p.m. at Flat Branch Park, and music at various locations downtown by The Bubbas, Saggy Bottom Boys, Double Duty, Dr, Chordate, B14 Him, For the Irony, Disrupted Perception, Counterfeit Heroz and Mark Risch. The event also includes carriage rides, Gypsy Baladi and Deva Dancers. www.twilightfestival.com.

Express!Fest Children's Art Festival will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at Auxvasse City Park. Kids enjoy free art and craft activities, music, food, a bounce house, face painting and more. Each child will receive a free book from the library's summer reading program.

State Historical Society of Missouri's MoHip Theatre presents "The Editor is Absent: Tribulation&Triumph in Missouri's Press" at 7 p.m. July 12 with readers Darren Hellwege, Mary Paulsell, Bob Priddy, Jim Robertson and Jim Steele, and music by Cathy Barton and Dave Para at Thespian Hall in Boonville. Tickets are $5 for adults and $2.50 for children younger than 10. Tickets available at the door or at the Missouri Press Foundation, 802 Locust St. in Columbia.

University of Missouri 2008 Summer Repertory Theatre will present "Cabaret" 8 p.m. Wednesday and next Thursday, and July 5, 11, 17, 19, 25 and at 2 p.m. July 6 and 20 at Rhynsburger Theatre. $14. 882-PLAY or theatre.missouri.edu.